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Ukiah Daily JournalTue, 26 Sep 2017 14:37:43 -070060It doesn't seem that way now, with one hurricane after another battering the East and Gulf coasts, shutting down oil refineries, flooding downtowns and residential neighborhoods alike and inflicting hundreds of billions of dollars worth of damages. But California remains the most disaster-prone state in America.]]>Tue, 26 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0700201709221625332017-09-26T00:01:00-07:002017-09-22T16:25:33-07:00Beverly R. Butcher Jr. worked for 37 years as a coal miner in West Virginia for a company called Consol Energy, Inc. But then he ran into a little bit of a dispute with his employer. (Yes, Beverly was a man - like Joyce and Shirley, a couple of other names commonly given to women, but sometimes to men as well.]]>Sun, 24 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0700201709211944162017-09-24T00:01:00-07:002017-09-21T19:44:16-07:00Once more we must take issue with yet another full-page advertisement from the San District attempting to make sure that the incumbents in the upcoming San District board election keep their seats.

The San District has issued paragraph after paragraph of complete untruths, exaggerations and cherry-picked information designed to convince voters that their efforts to extort money from the City of Ukiah - efforts that have already cost those same voters $4 million in legal fees - are worth the cost.

]]>Sun, 24 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0700201709211944152017-09-24T00:01:00-07:002017-09-21T19:44:15-07:00When I come to a new city inevitably I find myself in the old part(s) of town, tramping down the alleys, peering through dirty windows into darkened rooms that usually are empty and have been that way for decades.

]]>Sun, 24 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0700201709211944152017-09-24T00:01:00-07:002017-09-21T19:44:15-07:00An Arab-American family was arrested after the father tried to deposit a big check at a Wichita, Kansas bank.

It seems, Hadil Ali had just sold his old house in Dearborn, Michigan, and wanted to deposit a check for $151,000 in his Wichita bank account.

]]>Sun, 24 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0700201709211944152017-09-24T00:01:00-07:002017-09-21T19:44:15-07:00A record-breaking storm has flooded Texas. Hurricane Harvey increased from category 1 to category 4 hours before coming ashore on Aug. 25. The worst wind devastation was on the coast because Harvey quickly lost energy and was downgraded to a tropical storm. Forward movement stalled for days, and continued to draw water from the Gulf, producing massive rainfall over the area, eventually flooding a quarter of the state.]]>Sun, 24 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0700201709211944142017-09-24T00:01:00-07:002017-09-21T19:44:14-07:00Former homeless woman

wants to help

To the Editor:

As I sit here watching the news night after night I hear about how the homeless encampments are being set on fire and homeless people are being displaced. I read in the local news how homeless people are being moved from one place to another and being ticketed from being in that place.

I recently read the letter from Luke and Simon Keegan regarding the upcoming prosecution of their father, Peter. When I heard that Dr. Keegan had been indicted, and would stand trial for the death of his wife Susan, I was stunned.

]]>Sun, 24 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0700201709211944142017-09-24T00:01:00-07:002017-09-21T19:44:14-07:00Buried in the back pages of newspapers and not even making it onto many television and radio news programs this summer was the news that Gov. Jerry Brown again refused parole a member of the murderous Manson Family gang, while a parole board denied freedom to another.

But these actions raised more questions than they answered.

]]>Sat, 23 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0700201709211919212017-09-23T00:01:00-07:002017-09-21T19:19:21-07:00Say this about President Donald J. Trump: He never fails to astonish. For in his maiden speech before the General Assembly of the United Nations Tuesday morning, he stunned his critics by his repeated, respectful bows to hoary tradition even as he opened up unusual attacks on other nations and rival ideologies - and issued an unprecedented vow from a podium of peace to mount a military assault to "totally destroy" another country.]]>Sat, 23 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0700201709211919202017-09-23T00:01:00-07:002017-09-21T19:19:20-07:00Blame it all >> on gluten.-Last week I read John Lanchester's delightful, road-not-taken essay, "How Civilization Started: was it even a good idea?" The New Yorker (9/18). Lanchester primarily works from a book by James C. Scott, Against the Grain: a Deep History of the Earliest States. -Like each of us moderns, our deep, pre-civilized ancestors (that's 95 percent of our ancestors) came to an existential fork in the road.]]>Sat, 23 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0700201709211919192017-09-23T00:01:00-07:002017-09-21T19:19:19-07:00Scam alert

To the Editor:

The scammers are at it again. This morning I received a call that my phone identified as coming from Vancouver WA. The caller said he was my grandson and said he was in Washington for a wedding. Wasn't doing too well; had a broken nose. Asked if we could keep the conversation between him and me only.

There is a Casper Rock named Lillie's Love placed somewhere along one of our Ukiah-area trails for you or someone you know to find.

I found it in Casper, Wyoming, a few weeks ago when I was there for the total solar eclipse. I was out exploring the trails at the Casper Mountain Youth Nordic Ski Center, looked down and there it was.

]]>Fri, 22 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0700201709221618062017-09-22T00:01:00-07:002017-09-22T16:18:06-07:00WASHINGTON - Ken Burns' brilliant television exposition "The Vietnam War" not surprisingly brought forth in me, as with many other Americans, old and troubling memories.

From the first time I went to Indochina in 1967, the most distressing thing I discovered in talking to hundreds of American troops was that I could not find one of them who believed in the war.

]]>Fri, 22 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0700201709211241252017-09-22T00:01:00-07:002017-09-21T12:41:25-07:00WASHINGTON - At this shank end of a summer that a calmer America someday will remember with embarrassment, you must remember this: In the population of 325 million, a small sliver crouches on the wilder shores of politics, another sliver lives in the dark forest of mental disorder, and there is a substantial overlap between these slivers.]]>Fri, 22 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0700201709211241252017-09-22T00:01:00-07:002017-09-21T12:41:25-07:00